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标题：Household Willingness to Pay for solid Waste Disposal Services in Urban Ghana: The Kumasi Metropolis Situation
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作者：Simon Boateng ; Prince Amoako ; Adjoa Afriyie Poku 等
期刊名称：Ghana Journal of Geography
印刷版ISSN：0855-9414
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：1-17
语种：English
出版社：African journals online
摘要：Solid waste management has become inevitable in the global developmental processes. Thus, thesustainability of funds to manage solid waste is paramount, and it is contingent on the willingnessof people to pay for improved solid waste disposal services. The paper, therefore, examined thefactors that influence the willingness to pay for solid waste disposal in the Kumasi Metropolis. Asample size of 394 households was chosen using a simple random sampling technique. Logitregression was used to estimate the impacts that respondents' perceptions of certain variables hadon residents’ willingness to pay for waste disposal services. These variables were: the effectivenessof bye-laws, the quality of services, income, education, awareness of health hazards ofindiscriminate waste disposal, areas of residence and some socio-demographic variables. Thestudy revealed that payment for solid waste disposal was not uncommon in the study area. Thestudy found that area of residence, effective bye-laws, level of education and income werestatistically significant regarding willingness to pay for solid disposal services. However,household size and respondents' awareness of health hazards of indiscriminate waste disposal didnot have any effect on respondents' willingness to pay for improved solid waste services. Followingfrom these results it is recommended that local government authorities should effectivelyimplement the sanitation bye-laws and re-institute the sanitation court to deal with cases ofimproper solid waste disposal.
关键词：s;Solid Waste Disposal;Willingness to Pay;Socio-demographic factors;Bye-laws;Sanitation court